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{{Indent|Dramatically, one ''chooses to be'' a mother. Theatrically one ''takes on the role'' of mother.<ref>Section 15.</ref>}}}} | {{Indent|Dramatically, one ''chooses to be'' a mother. Theatrically one ''takes on the role'' of mother.<ref>Section 15.</ref>}}}} | ||
This is a harder distinction to glom, especially since Carse concedes that during a finite game the action is “provisionally” dramatic, since the players write the script as they go along. But the object of the game is to ''kill'' the drama by making the outcome inevitable. So provisional, and hostile, to drama. | This is a harder distinction to glom, especially since Carse concedes that during a finite game the action is “provisionally” dramatic, since the players write the script as they go along. But the object of the game is to ''kill'' the drama by making the outcome inevitable. So provisional, and hostile, to drama. | ||
=== | ===The value of artists=== | ||
A society that wishes to transcend itself and stay in touch with its culture must embrace its | A society that wishes to transcend itself and stay in touch with its culture must embrace its “inventors, makers, artists, story-tellers and mythologists”: not those who deal in historical actualities, but who help imagine new possibilities for how the culture might be.<ref>Unhelpfully, Carse calls these people “''poietai''” — from Plato’s expression, a label hardly [[calculated]] to make his work ''more'' penetrable.</ref>Their mode of engagement having no particular intended outcome or conclusion, they can appear hostile to those already holding rank, title or position in society, and who would rather shore up the historical record to validate their victories. | ||
Society is ambivalent towards the dreamers and malcontents who imagine a different order — they once broke Mick Jagger on a wheel; now he’s a peer of the realm — but they operate not by directly confronting the established order, but by sketching out an imagined alternative which eventually takes root. | |||
== Original research == | == Original research == | ||